For all the hype Silicon Valley gets, the companies of the world's 2 richest people are in the Seattle area.
Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
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#12For all the hype Silicon Valley gets, the companies of the world's 2 richest people are in the Seattle area.
People are usually including Amazon and MS when they use the metonym "Silicon Valley".
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#13Any reason why the Rothchilds never show up in these lists? My best guess there is some sort of "who's the richest game" for some new money players (who's fortune can be tracked), where old money prefers obscurity.
They may have it spread across a larger family and in opaque investment vehicles, etc.
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#15Any reason why the Rothchilds never show up in these lists? My best guess there is some sort of "who's the richest game" for some new money players (who's fortune can be tracked), where old money prefers obscurity.
Most extremely wealthy people hide their wealth through corporations / trusts / etc and never show up on these lists.
This sort of info isn't technically pure public knowledge, right? It's mostly estimated based on stock ownership figures where they're publicly listed I would guess? Probably less a matter of hiding than just not-public-info.
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#16Unless Putin is on this list I doubt its veracity.
maybe they dont count corruption?
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#17Any reason why the Rothchilds never show up in these lists? My best guess there is some sort of "who's the richest game" for some new money players (who's fortune can be tracked), where old money prefers obscurity.
http://www.snopes.com/rothschild-family-wealth/
Basically, after three generations a single persons wealth is distributed out enough to get dropped from these sorts of lists. Jeff might be the 2nd richest in the world - it's highly unlikely his grandchildren will be ranked as such.
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#18For all the hype Silicon Valley gets, the companies of the world's 2 richest people are in the Seattle area.
cause seattle never sleeps
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#19How is Bezos making money? Amazon doesn't seem to generate enough dividends to reach this amount of wealth, or does it?
Bezos owns about 83M[1] shares of Amazon which are currently $875.
[1] https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Amazon-does-Jeff-Be...